Powermill easycam 201711/4/2022 ![]() ![]() Is a CAM program a CAM program if it doesn't have a way to support your machine the way you want to without bleeding more money out of you? Imagine if you had to pay money to create a resume with Microsoft Word. ![]() POWERMILL EASYCAM 2017 UPDATEEach and every cycle back and forth with the VAR doing the editing means having to wait for the update (if it is important enough) and possibly making some changes to existing part programs. Why? As someone pointed out earlier, they are on version 25 of their post processor. Shitty software that doesn't allow you to easily edit and configure your own post processor cost you money. There's another side to this, which is the productivity hit. And, of course, you know very well that a company like GoEngineer has already produced posts for the VF2 so they are charging you full tilt to more than likely just email you a copy of an already existing post processor. I can't believe they are charging every VF2 owner $750 to effectively reinvent the wheel. For everything else these companies need to invest the time to develop a sensible starting point and even a few options from there. ![]() Autodesk Accounts will be created for the defined customer contact. Getting CAMWorks years ago may have been a mistake as most people I know are using MasterCAM. Hi TK.421, With the release of PowerMill 2017, we have begun fulfillment of subscriptions. How is it with other CAM packages? I might consider switching just on the principle of it all. It has these generic post processors you can play with and that's it. The CAM software ought to come out of the gate with a library of supported machines. But for a Haas machine? Or any other common machine out there? This is nothing less than despicable to me. Someone might have to devote some time to configure it. I can understand charging to configure a post processor for an oddball machine. And now I am told by GoEngineer it'll cost $750 to get the code. So.I paid-up to renew my license and give it another try rather than going to, say, MasterCAM. I bought it back in 2008 and haven't used it since 2010 after I closed my business. ![]()
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